For those curious, the university tweeted, Amelia lives at the university’s Foremost Dairy Research Center. “She loved visiting campus,” the school tweeted.

The newspaper reported that Montalbano cleared the photo shoot on Francis Quadrangle with school officials before he and his girlfriend, animal sciences grad student Monica Witzke, loaded Amelia onto a trailer and drove her to campus.

Cows on the Columbia campus?

Nothing new.

“We’ve had a number of students over the years who have had an interest in dairy who have had photos taken with cows on the quad,” Jim Spain, vice provost for undergraduate studies, told the Missourian.

A post on the university’s Facebook page — cow emojis included — says that 2,200 students will graduate this weekend.

Read Next

A new BBC Three documentary on child marriage in the U.S. features women from South Carolina and Georgia. One child bride from Spartanburg, SC married a 24-year-old who could have faced statutory rape charges.